Webs
Beth Downing Beth Downing

Webs

The benefits of being on a quiet trail alone: the quiet, and the aloneness. The drawbacks: potentially spicy wildlife encounters, and spiderwebs.

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The Blurs
Beth Downing Beth Downing

The Blurs

The steaming sand blurs the sea-to-sky horizon. The water floods over my feet, blurring the human-to-earth horizon. There is no cell phone signal so the movement of time has blurred the morning-to-afternoon horizon.

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Quiet is a Bandaid
Beth Downing Beth Downing

Quiet is a Bandaid

I had thoughts about how this would go. Pictures in my head of my early morning hike all by myself. Communing with the rainforest. Listening, actually listening, because that’s what I was here for. Taking my time and stepping outside myself. In short, trying very hard to produce a meaningful experience in a certain place at a certain time and in a certain way.

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